And Now the Truth Comes Out

And the Obama administration is now falling all over itself to apologize to Shirley Sherrod.

Not panicking in the first place, and getting the facts right would have been better, but I think that what happened is that they realize that they are now looking like a bunch of bed-wetting cowards.

The problem is not that they are looking like a bunch of bed-wetting cowards, it is that they are a bunch of bed-wetting cowards.

Not only is it bad policy, but it is bad politics, because, as Josh Marshall notes in his "Bitch slap theory of electoral politics, because it makes the voters think that, "Someone who can't or won't defend themselves certainly isn't someone you can depend upon to defend you."

I'm waiting for the the response from Stewart, Letterman, and Leno.